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Roanoke Times - February 16, 1907

GREAT OMELET ON N.&W.

Carload of Eggs Smashed in Wreck Near Crimora

Crimora, Va., Feb. 16 - Between 5 and 6 o'clock Tuesday morning there 
was a freight train wrecked at the water tank one half mile north of 
this place which blocked traffic until about 3:30 p.m.

A long freight train heading north, running with a double-header, 
broke in two. The engineer, not knowing what had happened, stopped 
the train to take water, and the rear cars that had broken loose ran 
into the part of the train standing, and smashed eight loaded cars.

The only man hurt was the flagman, who was in the caboose and was 
thrown violently by the collision. He was badly hurt.

The eight wrecked cars were so badly damaged that in clearing away 
the wreck, after the contents had been removed, they were mostly burned.

On of the cars wrecked was filled with crates of eggs and there was a 
wonderful mixture made of these, though strange to say, many of them 
were sound and were carried away by the wreckers. The other wrecked 
cars contained timber and coal.

There were two wrecking crews engaged in removing the debris.